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Dizzy Gillespie And Face: A Jazzy Google Doodle
The current Google Doodle remembers what would be the 93rd b-day of jazz trumpeter Birks Gillespie. Regrettably, Gillespie passed away in 1993. He had been 75 years old. In truth, fans knew him as "Dizzy" Gillespie, whose face exploded outward as the trumpet sounded its call. His fashion sense (beret, goatee and horn-rimmed glasses), personal bent horn and scat singing helped popularize the newest jazz form known as bebop. Go to Google.com and click on the Gillespie Google Doodle for more info on a trailblazer of American music. Resource for this article - Google Doodle celebrates Dizzy Gillespie and his cheeks by Personal Money Store.
The cheeks on Dizzy Gillespie made him and bebop songs unforgettable
Bebop became an amazing new genre as Dizzy Gillespie could control the trumpet at a breakneck tempo, although numerous do recall his face too. A mix of melodic and harmonic improvisation, use of the vertical improve or cords instead of going horizontally via scales and runs throughout the horn range of eight notes are what Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker on the saxophone, and Thelonious Monk on the piano did in the 1940s for making bebop popular. "Bebop" has many different origins although scat singing, where syllables that do not make sense are all strung together, is what Gillespie states the songs came from. According to Wikipedia, Gillespie once said that an audience coined the term when trying to request a scat piece. At the time, the term "scat" had yet to become popular.
The cheeks that made Dizzy Gillespie renowned
There are many tales about Dizzy Gillespie's cheeks, some of them perpetuated by Gillespie himself. Many assume the face had some form of muscular damage because he played the trumpet so often. This allegedly caused his cheeks to expand outward to an abnormal degree when playing.
The cheeks of Dizzy Gillespie inspired musicians
Wynton Marsalis is ajazz trumpeter who said that Dizzy Gillespie is, accounts the Los Angeles Times, "a great dancer, teacher, wit and spiritual presence.". Artists like Igor Stravinsky, Isaac Albeniz, Frida Kahlo, Wayne Thiebaud and Josef Franck are now with Dizzy Gillespie as a Google Doodle due to his personality, skill and artistic flair with the trumpet.
Articles cited
LA Times
latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/10/google-honors-jazz-great-dizzy-gillespie-with-doodle.html
Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop
Dizzy Gillespie and his Orchestra (featuring "Chano" Pozo), 1947 - "Manteca"
youtube.com/watch?v=s74NlRy-ibs
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